Brad Scornavacco · Systema Explained · Systema Colorado If you’ve trained in traditional martial arts, the belt system is one of the first things you encounter. White belt. Yellow. Orange. Green. Brown. Black. The colors mark your progress, signal your rank to everyone in the room, and give you something visible to work toward. Systema Read More …
Brad Scornavacco · Systema Explained · Systema Colorado It’s one of the first questions new students ask, and the answer is almost always surprising: most people can apply what they learn in Systema after their very first class. That’s not a marketing claim. It follows directly from how Systema works — and understanding why changes Read More …
Brad Scornavacco · Systema Explained · Longmont, CO Most people who find Systema come from somewhere else. They’ve trained in Karate, or Taekwondo, or Jiu-Jitsu, or Kung Fu. They’ve put in real time and developed real skill. And then they encounter Systema — and something shifts. The question they almost always ask is: what’s actually Read More …
In his groundbreaking book Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky contrasts the life of a zebra on the savannah with the life of a modern human — and the difference has everything to do with stress. A zebra lives with a calm psychological baseline. It grazes, drinks, wanders. Occasionally a lion gives Read More …
